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'''Description:''' Ancestral memory in humans is no more than pseudo-
scientific nonsense. To the Garou, who can contact the
spirits of their ancestors, it’s a fact of life. Many werewolves
carry some of the memories of a distant ancestor; some
even allow their forebears to take over their bodies.

Once per game session, the player of a Garou with this
Background may roll his Ancestors Background (difficulty 8,
or 10 if he’s trying to contact the spirit of a specific ancestor).
Each success allows the character to increase any Ability
by one for the purposes of a single die roll, even if he has
no dots in the Ability — and he doesn’t suffer the penalty
for not having the Ability. For example, young Emil, a pure
flatlander, must scale an immense cliff to come to the aid
of his embattled pack. Emil has an Ancestors rating of 4
and Athletics 0. He calls on his forebears to guide him, and
Emil’s player rolls four dice at difficulty 8. He scores three
successes. Emil contacts his great-great-great granduncle
Cragtamer, who guides him over the sheer face and over
the top. Now the player has an effective Athletics rating of
3 to make his climbing roll. If the Garou had an Athletics
rating of 2, then his effective dice pool would be 5. All
effects last for the rest of the scene.

While it is more difficult to contact a specific
ancestor, successful contact provides either useful advice
or precognitive visions at the discretion of the Storyteller.

Botching an Ancestors roll may indicate that the
character becomes catatonic for the remainder of the
scene as he’s overwhelmed by the memories of thousands
of lives. Alternatively, the ancestral spirit refuses to
relinquish the body. How long the ancestor stays depends
on the Storyteller.

• You have brief, hazy visions from the distant past. 
•• You remember faces and places from past lives just as you remember those of your early childhood. 
••• You put names to faces among your ancestors. 
•••• Ancestors converse with you on a regular basis. 
••••• Your ancestors watch your adventures with interest, and they often come to counsel you.

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